Rob Landley <landley@webofficenow.com> writes:> That would be the X version of emacs. And there's the explanation> for the split between GNU and X emacs: it got forked and the> closed-source version had a vew years of divergent development> before opening back up, by which point it was very different to> reconcile the two code bases.

No, sorry, wrong, for at least a couple of reasons reasons:

1) XEmacs, being constrained to be under the same license (GPL) as its progenitor, GNU Emacs, could never have been closed-source.

2) Lucid Emacs, the version of Emacs that becamse XEmacs, was not started until ca. 1992